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thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-23 11:25:20
June 23 2008 11:24 GMT
#1
I was just looking for the chaoslauncher thread (the original one) and entered "chaos" as the keyword. Now, while I got a bunch of threads pertaining to the launcher, I didn't get the one I wanted.

However, when I changed the keyword to "chaoslauncher", I got the thread I was looking for.

So the search function works by looking for whitespace delimited strings rather than by umm, how would I describe it... like, strings, anywhere. I understand that this is because of CPU usage, and if we searched for "fuck", it would have to search through many more string 'regions' to find stuff like motherfucker, buttfuck, fucking, fucktoss, etcetc and could be a burden.

So as a compromise I was wondering if the search could be modified slightly to look for string regions that follow whitespaces rather than ones that are both preceded and followed by whitespaces.

The reason for this, is that "chaos" would return both "choas" and "chaoslauncher", "muta" would return "muta", "mutalisk", "mutalisks", etc. Right now, conjugations of verbs, plurals of nouns, and other derivatives of basic search components dont come up in the search results. The consequence of this is that (a) it becomes cumbersome to search, then re-search, etcetc (b) it should somewhat help the users who search for "muta", and find nothing but had they searched for "mutalisk", they would have gotten the threads they were looking for. Similar things would happen with "micro" vs "microing", "hotkey", "hotkeys", "hotkeying", etcetc. I'm sure pple could come up with many other examples as well.

Then again I can't deny the merits of having an EXACT search like the one we have right now, when doing a search for a word that is relatively common (and occurs as a sort of a prefix to more words), so perhaps a checkbox for doing EXACT searches while having the more lenient search as the default would be a good compromise?

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IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32274 Posts
June 23 2008 15:29 GMT
#2
LOL
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IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32274 Posts
June 23 2008 15:30 GMT
#3
I think clearly the solution here is developing some kind of mind-reading search tool that one can implant into his own brain. After thinking of something it will automatically search for it.

Of course this tool will serve a double purpose. If a user posts for help without searching it would fry his brain.
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Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-23 18:02:42
June 23 2008 16:11 GMT
#4
or Proleague Final vs Proleague Finals (god that difference pissed me off -.-)
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Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States5770 Posts
June 23 2008 16:44 GMT
#5
Is proleague actually spelled proleauge in some places? Like in the UK or something?
'life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery'
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IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32274 Posts
June 23 2008 16:56 GMT
#6
lol he typoed that, its final vs finals
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Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
June 23 2008 18:03 GMT
#7
ya seriously try find me the SKT vs MBC final from 06, then the SKT KTF final from 05 etc
damn near impossible with all the title variations...

dont get me started about normal season
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SonuvBob
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Aiur21549 Posts
June 23 2008 19:24 GMT
#8
Ok, title search will use wildcards now.
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KOFgokuon
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States14893 Posts
June 23 2008 23:24 GMT
#9
how do you code this stuff so fast
SonuvBob
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Aiur21549 Posts
June 23 2008 23:43 GMT
#10
It's basically builtin to the database, just had to add a *. :p
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Kennigit *
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada19447 Posts
June 24 2008 00:33 GMT
#11
Don't give away your trade secrets like that. You have to maintain the illusion of mastery.
SonuvBob
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Aiur21549 Posts
June 24 2008 00:50 GMT
#12
Also, I can kill you with my brain.
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CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
June 24 2008 01:16 GMT
#13
On June 24 2008 09:50 SonuvBob wrote:
Also, I can kill you with my brain.

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..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
June 24 2008 04:56 GMT
#14
<3
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nortydog
Profile Joined December 2003
Australia3067 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-06-24 11:31:56
June 24 2008 11:31 GMT
#15
never thought of trying wildcards for the longest time I've been googling 'site:teamliquid.net searchterm'
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zatic
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Zurich15325 Posts
June 24 2008 11:39 GMT
#16
On June 24 2008 10:16 CharlieMurphy wrote:
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On June 24 2008 09:50 SonuvBob wrote:
Also, I can kill you with my brain.

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This food is problematic
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thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
June 24 2008 15:47 GMT
#17
Thanks!
[X]Ken_D
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
United States4650 Posts
June 24 2008 16:58 GMT
#18
I was never able to find exactly what I was looking for with TL search. The google site search works for me.
[X]Domain - I just do the website. Nothing more.
SonuvBob
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Aiur21549 Posts
June 24 2008 20:59 GMT
#19
On June 24 2008 20:39 zatic wrote:
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On June 24 2008 10:16 CharlieMurphy wrote:
On June 24 2008 09:50 SonuvBob wrote:
Also, I can kill you with my brain.

[image loading]

This food is problematic

ahahahahaha
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d.arkive
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States843 Posts
June 24 2008 21:02 GMT
#20
Good improvement, I remember i had such a hard time looking for the final games of past leagues
"Refrigerator. Refrigerator, damn you. Refrigerator."~Spiritofthetuna, speaking in Haiku after losing
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